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My ‘Time’ Wishlist

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Do you have any geeky / creative things you’d do if only had the time and the money time?

The idea for this post came about when I was setting up this blog.  For once, I had the time and the need to build a WordPress site (we’ll be migrating our Spoken Whirred blog to WordPress and I needed a site to test with).

 Cross one of the ole geek checklist.

  1. Setup a wordpress site

    2. What’s left on my geek checklist? Let’s see (off the top of my head):

  2. Build a web site / application in Ruby on Rails
  3. Build a facebook application
  4. Use Objective C or Cocoa (for a Mac app or iPhone) – (This one is totally unrealistic, because I’ll never have this much time)
  5. Use more jQuery / AJAX
  6. Help bring about the destruction of IE6.

Another wish list I have applies to more creative tasks:

  1. Take a photography class
  2. Learn how to use Illustrator better
  3. Actually use tags on my stock photo library so I can easily refer to them.
  4. Learn another movie making software (besides iMovie)
  5. Actually have the time to make some movies of Gabe.

What’s on your wish list?  Would any of these apply?  Should I store this list on 37things so I can keep track of these?

Dear Corporate America,

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Please stop using Internet Explorer 6.  It came out in 2001, is riddled with bugs and forces developers that want to use cool tools like MooTools write CSS and HTML hacks that make me cringe.

I understand you are fearful of change.  I get it.  Don’t upgrade to Office 2007.  Doesn’t bother me at all. Don’t upgrade to Vista.  Heck that OS compelled me to switch to a Mac. I also understand that your IT support staff is not prepared for the onslaught of calls due to the ribbon replacing menus in Office 07.

But the whole goal of Internet Explorer 7 was to be more secure (i.e. less for you to worry about).  Especially now that it’s been out for 2 years.  Also, it’s a browser, so it won’t crash your network or cause a flood of calls to your IT support center.

In conclusion, this is my plea to you corporate America, to do what’s best for web developers everywhere and upgrade to IE7 already.  The world of tab pages and standards based CSS support awaits you.

Sincerely,

Brian Schwartz